Does it feel like the future?

[ThePlasmatizer]

I'm just annoyed the millenium passed us by and no nation built a decent monument to it, all the attempts at making them were either gaudy or boring.

 

[Vortigar]

Well, Mr Aardvark doesn't have the Doktor Sleepless avatar for nothing (*plugging Ellis is always good. You reading this you grumpy old bastard! No, guess you aren't.).

Years ago I played in a pretty crappy play by all accounts. This coming of age type deal. It didn't really do anything for me, but hey, I got to play a dude who committed suicide and jump off the stage so all was well. One line stuck out that I always remembered though.

"Your future doesn't lie ahead of you, it jumps you from behind like a vicious beast."

I've found it doesn't jump on us though, it creeps up on us and assimilates us.

The future is like the Borg.

The Borg with a cloaking device.

"It always feels like yesterday, but actually its tommorrow." (I plan on quoting myself on that one.)

 

[Nimbus]

I'm just annoyed the millenium passed us by and no nation built a decent monument to it, all the attempts at making them were either gaudy or boring.

What about the Millenium Spire?

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

I'm just annoyed the millenium passed us by and no nation built a decent monument to it, all the attempts at making them were either gaudy or boring.

What about the Millenium Spire?

A giant spire is both.

 

[dalek sec]

I demand robot warriors to fight our wars so the rest of us can get lazy and fat.

 

[Frybird]

xkcd somehow covers everything.

Anyways, yeah, it's kinda strange, while i'm not that old (Kid of the 90ies more like), it still feels kinda strange thinking that soon, we will have 2010.

And it's strange that i tend to think that, in the last 8 years, not much has changed , because it certainly did.

I mean, we are still living in the aftermath of all the crap that happened on "9/11" (and that's saying much for me, given that i am not even american). I guess if the 1998 Versions of us could see us, they were much more amazed than we are.

Then again, probably not, due to the lack of flying cars.

 

[beddo]

As someone who barely remembers the turn of the century, I can't say I empathise much with you. To be fair I've seen huge shift during my life time. I remember playing DOS games on a computer with dial-up, and now I play CoD4 in a net cafe on broadband, but it's nothing compared to the conception of something as world changing as the Internet.

Makes me wonder what would happen if it all crashed tomorrow. Now that's an Apocalypse I could get in to. Sort of like the y2k bug, but much bigger.

I remember playing C&C, Red Alert and Duke Nukem3D on a LAN with two friends when I was a kid. We had to lug three massive computers into the main room. The only real noise beside us shouting at each other was the whirring of the HDDs over our tinny speakers. I was a bad loser, always hiding those last troops behind a tree so my opponents would give up.

I don't think it would be a bad thing if the internet died for about a month. Would be quite interesting to see everyone thrown back into the 70s-80s (I know they had internet but it was hardly anywhere). Besides the panic buying and looting it would be quite a nice respite for everyone.

 

[ffxfriek]

No its not the future noone can go to the future we can only be in the present. Im sorry to inform you.